Who We Are

We are Brent & Virginia Earwicker, bondservants of Jesus Christ. Having chosen to follow and serve Him as disciples and disciple-makers, we are laborers in His great harvest field, calling out to Him, "Here we are! Send us!" We are ambassadors of Christ with a ministry that pleads with the world, "Be reconciled to God!"

Virginia acquired a heart for nations outside the United States throughout her five-month tenure with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in 1998-1999. During this time, she lived in the Tenderloin District of San Fransisco, CA for training in inner-city ministry, street witnessing, worship ministry, and discipleship training. Following her studies, she visited Thailand and Vietnam for a period of two months where she discovered God's call on her life - to spend it on the poor and needy in developing nations around the world.

Attending Generation Interns (where she met Brent!) in 2001-2003, she received further discipleship & leadership training, and hands-on ministry skills in Boise, ID, Washington D.C., and in the nation of Ukraine, all the while looking forward to serving the Lord overseas for the long-term.

Brent's parents took him to South America in 1994, and his older brother took him to Southern Africa on a 2-month tour with Teen Missions International in 1996. This was the point in Brent's life where he really committed his life to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and to serve God full time on the mission field in the years to come. Future short-term trips included many nations in Africa as well as Eastern Europe.

After graduating from Generation Interns together, we were married on July 23, 2004 and settled into Brent's hometown of Bend, OR, praying about timing for the mission field while serving at Westside Foursquare Church in various ministries of teaching, worship, missions, youth, outreach, and administrating a leadership training program for young adults.

In July of 2006, we were given an opportunity to visit Uganda, East Africa, with an urge from our pastors to look for a place to land and minister full time. The time was right, the place was right, and we packed up our lives and moved to Kampala, Uganda on November 18, 2006.

For the whole of 2007, and on into 2008, we ministered with Redeemed Church, a local Ugandan fellowship based in Kampala. This church has planted over 200 branch churches around the country, mostly in rural areas. These churches rarely receive visitors, so we would travel with other Bible teachers from Redeemed to hold week-long seminars and weekend meetings to provide discipleship training for these small village churches. We were also privileged to serve on a crusade team that travels all over East Africa, headed by Redeemed's staff evangelist, Drake Kanaabo.

Josiah Levi was added to the family in January, 2008 and has continually proven himself to be a novelty item, as he is the only Caucasian toddler most Ugandans have ever seen. Emilie Kate blessed our family with her presence in March of 2010, and is a source of joy to both her parents and the people we are serving.

In early 2009, we re-situated our own pastoral covering, submitting our ministry under the skillful leadership of Family Life Church in Nampa, Idaho, and joining hands with Life Church in the outskirts of Kampala. Being planted in the house of God, we've enjoyed the fellowship, protection, and synergy that happens when connected to the local church, both at home and abroad. We help to lead the worship ministry at Life Church, and run a discipleship school for young adults.

Ultimately, we are in Uganda to establish and strengthen Jesus’ Church for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. We want to see strong, healthy, community transforming, missionary-sending congregations of disciples in every populated place on Lake Victoria.

We are accomplishing this great goal through various means of ministry that include circuit-teaching in island churches, training disciples in intense leadership schools, leading teams for evangelistic outreach, planting churches in unreached villages, and distributing Bibles among literate believers. Additionally, we work alongside faithful local ministers to provide care for orphans, and strive to increase families' productivity through micro-finance initiatives. We have also enjoyed hosting teams of laborers who assist us in all of this challenging, rewarding work.